October 03, 2006
Barry pitches D.C. cap-busting bill
If you really believed that Washington, D.C. could get away with limiting its costs for the new Nationals stadium to the $611 million that was supposed to be its final offer, well, you can stop clapping your hands now. City councilmember Marion Barry was all set today to introduce a bill allowing the city to sell development rights on land near the ballpark and use the proceeds to pay for additional garage construction costs; it was temporarily shelved, reports a correspondent who was present, only "because nobody has had sufficient time to figure out what it all means."
No new reports on what the new price tag would be, but given that previous accounts have it potentially topping $700 million, that's probably a fair guess.
